Typological Peculiarities of the Styles of Political Thinking

Abstract

Political thinking style in all normative cases is characterized by the integrity of its systemic and strategic organization. At that it is a totality of individual and psychological characteristics of actor which is preconditioned by his political activity and at the same time differentiates his political activity and thinking from other actors’ activity and thinking. In the systemic and strategic concept of political thinking which we have developed, the conceptual issues are the theses that its peculiarities are subjectness, practicality, nationality and creativity. The subject of political thinking functions according to the principle of polyphony, that is an important problem may be manifested heterochronically and the nature of its existence may be heterogeneous in different and/or all spheres of human life – religion, economics, politics etc. Meanings and senses are recorded in nationality. Practicality reflects actor’s ability to be the political activity subject. Creativity in politics is related to the fact that politics is an activity with risks, lack of certainty etc.The tactics were manifested systemically, which was reflected in strategic tendencies of thinking, in particular mixed (universal) strategy. In its turn, in this mixed strategy there dominated the acts of combination, reconstruction and analogization, that is construction and transformation were carried out by means of re-building, acting by contrast (contrary to the specified situation) as to the situation structure and functions (which is reflected in the tactics of orientation towards structure and functions).

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n1s2p84